It's all fun and games until someone starts with the machine gun fire.
Yep, 18 of them were suspended after blanks were fired in front of beachgoers off the coast of Crab Island, Florida.
Let me post some military context for the Army guys who will get salty about the headlines that these guys are Rangers:
The instructors with the 6th Ranger Training Battalion have been suspended ... The 6th Ranger Training Battalion runs the swamp phase of the Ranger Course, but is not within the 75th Ranger Regiment.
Now to the main story, as reported by Task & Purpose:
The May 16 incident at Crab Island in Destin, Florida, led to at least two 911 calls and several social media posts. Videos posted on social media showed men in military uniforms with Ranger tabs and blank adapters on their weapons firing at least two bursts into the air.
In one of the videos, a woman who is off camera can be heard shouting after the first burst, 'Is that real?'
Despite the fact that they were not live rounds, the servicemen involved soon found themselves in hot water. And not the kind you find along a sandy Florida beach.
Michael Ingram, a charter boat captain who was at Crab Island at the time, told Task & Purpose that the soldiers did not give any advance warning that they intended to fire their weapons, prompting several boaters to take cover.
'This is unacceptable because there are so many real mass shootings going on in America each year.'
'You can't be joking about it.'
Eighteen soldiers with the 6th Ranger Training Battalion have been temporarily suspended as instructors pending further investigation.
Well … at least they were blanks.
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